PTI | Jammu | Mar 27, 2017:: Jammu & Kashmir RSS chief Suchait Singh on Monday claimed the “footprints of terror elements” are increasing in West Bengal and accused the Mamata Banerjee government of “engineering terror violence” and “communal politics” in the state.

“We express concern over the increasing presence of ‘Jihadist’ elements in West Bengal, the policy of vote-bank appeasement being followed by the state government there and the shrinking population of Hindus in the state,” he told reporters here.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), at its Akhil Bhartiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) in Coimbatore, had discussed and passed a resolution+ expressing grave concern over the alleged rise in violence in West Bengal, Singh said.

“The ABPS has strongly condemned the extremist violence and the appeasement policy of the Bengal government,” he said.

The J&K RSS chief called upon the countrymen to create awareness against this “Jihadist violence and communal politics of the West Bengal government”.

Referring to the attack on a police station, just 8-km from the Indo-Bangladesh border, in West Bengal’s Malda district, he said the “increasing attacks against security forces is a grave danger to national security”.

Singh said, “Hardliner clerics have been issuing fatwas to incite violence, and Hindus have been attacked in several places in West Bengal.”

In the border areas, the growing presence of hardliners is forcing Hindu families to flee and they are also behind the fake currency, cow smuggling and illegal migration rackets, he alleged.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in its probe into the Burdwan Bomb Blast case had found evidence of terror groups being active in several parts of West Bengal, he claimed.